No one knows why strangers are buying up Florida swampland in the 1960s. But the money's worth killing for.

(Note: "Major Bluecastle" is a short story. It is also available in the author's 10-story collection, Daggyland #3.)

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Not much happens in Abel Daunt's neck of the woods. For as long has he's lived in central Florida and worked as a sheriff's deputy, the people are as boring as the land.

A place of swamps and sleepy orange groves.

But now something's afoot. Suddenly, outsiders are buying up land. And the money they're throwing around is enough to stir up the murky waters where alligators dwell.

Enough to turn buddy against buddy, sons against fathers, blood against blood.

Abel's too busy running down a murderer to ask the big question: What are they building?

No one knows. But it's going to be something...major.

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